Thursday, May 26
Current Countdowns
1. for word about where/when to meet for drinks [t minus 45 mins]
2. for weekend and imminent visit to Long Island to see the family units. [t minus 1.5 days]
3. for transcontinental relocation to occur [t minus 5 weeks minus 1 day]
4. the Singularity [BoingBoing]
Tuesday, May 24
Upscale Dogs
Just tonight over dinner of Smoked Bauern Sausage from the food stalls @ Grand Central, real kraut, etc. I was brainstorming/coolhunting that what NYC needs is the Tribeca answer to the Gowanus Yacht Club in Brooklyn: select, hard-to-find German Biers (Dortmunders anyone?) and a variety of upscale wursts.. Lo and behold NYT was right there to answer me.
In [meta] news, so I'm moving to the west coast - Los Angeles (westside) specifically...
This presents all sorts of treats in the psycho-social-emotional department. Yeah, it's um hot.
Monday, May 9
Microsorting
At the Labrea Tar pits in Los Angeles, there are women who sit behind glass microsorting hunks of junk pulled out of the pits.